Work Quotes

As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options.

It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.

Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

If people aren't in sync, things won't work out well.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

There are so many things about playing football that seem to me uniquely American. Anybody can succeed, anybody can play, but you've got to work hard to do it.

I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.

We wanted to sit down and conceptually work out songs.

And the Institute sent me a little film footage of Kinsey himself preparing to do an interview for television to talk about his work, so that was quite valuable for me.

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them.

To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.

The more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

People think that I work out but it's all t'ai chi.

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.

I work hard, and I tend to play hard. I very seldom rest hard.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.

I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts.

The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

I'm not married and I don't think that's going to work out for me. I'm not even bitter, I'm just exhausted.

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.